"Dublin's Pirate Days" on Dublin Community Television

I have been recently looking at a series on Dublin Community Television about the past pirate radio scene in Dublin presented by Eddie Bohan. It was made in 2013 to mark the 25th anniversary of the Wireless Telegraphy Act that took affect from midnight December 31st 1988, which resulted in a majority of pirate radio stations at the time closing down. "Dublin's Pirate Days" has been repeated on that tv station, which I can pick up from the Virgin digital package, and I only caught up with it lately. There are six episodes to the series and it looks like some or all are being repeated for a while. The centrepiece of each episode, following some history of the development of Dublin pirates, is the interviews conducted by Eddie of people with vast pirate experience. Interviewees included (with apologies if I forgot someone): Declan Meehan, Tracey Evans (Radio Dublin and Heartbeat FM), Valerie Cox (Radio Dublin), Mike Purcell (Dublin South Community Radio), Andy Preston, Aidan Cooney, Garvin Rigby, Paul Shepherd and Walter Hegarty. I included pirates in brackets for those who may not be as well known to the general listening public. In case you are wondering, the last three are among the founders of Christmas FM.

It is also the first time I paid much heed at all to this voluntary television station!